New Things You Can Try for Season 7 Diablo 2 Resurrected

Dbrunski125: I unfortunately can't play this season. Just moved to Korea for my new job and I'm 18
JayLofa51: My season goal is to find Phil in a pub online game
jeezybaby43: youll know who likes hardcore because they will tell you within the first 2 minutes of meeting you.
americanbaldguy4238: For the last couple weeks I've been playing D2 v1.03 fresh disk install with no patching. You should give it a try Phil, it is challenging! After playing the original D2 I feel like runes/runewords ruined the game.
SomethingScotty: I am a massive Classic Diablo 2 advocate. Don't get me wrong I still LOVE Lord of Destruction, but I do personally feel that Runewords kind of ruined the spirit of the games core draw, that of course being the loot hunt. I'm not talking about Holy Grail runs here though I'm talking about just natural character progression. Rare items aren't meaningful in Lord of Destruction because all you ever do in LoD is hop from one Runeword to another and every class uses basically the same exact Runewords, with the only real true customization coming from your jewlery slots, and even that's kinda iffy at best. In Classic getting a rare is a big deal, and you can actually feel the burst of power when you get some random unique to drop or a rare that rolled with favorable stats for your class/build. Gems were actually useful for something other than just rolling sockets into gray items for Runeword crafting. Set items were actually meaningful as well, and a lot of sets had cool visual effects when you wore the entire kit. Trang'Oul's for example turned you into a Vampire when you had the whole set equipped. Anyone playing exclusively LoD probably doesn't know that since running sets is just deliberately gimping yourself since One helmet Runeword is better than 90% of any fully complete set.
TyrantsRuin: I've been playing D2/D2R for like 15 years I believe. I play it in small increments these days, ive been SSF in all games for quite a long time now.
wax99: You can also try modding it!! NGL, this is the first time I've modded it (finally caved) and just love it
alh-xj6gt: classic. (from my mrlama comment and adding a bit more info and hints. as I played more.) I don't play Resurrected am on 1.14D with pluggy and basemod (only for fps fix. it adds more features but I don't use them). As I don't like the changes and TZ.

- Stash. yes it seems small. But inventory is stash because there are no runes, charms and jewels so it doesn't eat up space.

- Best thing is sorc static has no cap in NM or H.

- No shared stash. so muling oldschool

- No orange cube crafted gear

- Synergies were added with 1.10 even back then but everyone played LOD. so no one cared

- no item charges. so no life tap wand or lower res wand

- no class specific items like barb helmets

- Summons also don't travel with acts

- The Resist penalty per difficulty is lower. NM: -20 and Hell: -50

- leech is op and different. combined with...

- Whirlwind hits every frame

- Hard to find info on classic as the d2 forums are gone and not all of it is archived which is a pain to go through on archive site. Might be nice to have some videos and resources for classic. It is a valid game mode which is fun. Area and boss levels are different. For example SOJ (39) doesn't drop from NM Andariel (37)

- Purediablo has a drop calc for classic but it is in german and hard to use

- Some levels:
Bosses: Andariel (12, 37, 62) Duriel (22, 47, 72) Mephisto (26, 57, 76) Diablo (40, 65, 90)
typical areas: A1: Cow (28, 53, 78) Pit (7, 32, 57) Trist (6, 31, 56) Mausoleum (3, 28, 53). A2: AS (14, 39, 64) TR-Tombs (17, 42, 67). A3: LK (22, 47, 72) Trav (24, 49, 74). A4: CS (28, 53, 78)
So in CS the seal bosses are 81
(lvls are from old d2jsp forum post no clue how accurate the lvls are)

- Block on the shields means block on the char, dex doesn't give block. For Example, Twitchroe gives flat block on top. so a Tower Shield 44% Twitchroe 25% = 69% Block

- Only normal uniques and sets. Amulet (Nokozan Relic, The Eye of Etlich, The Mahim-Oak Curio) and Ring (Nagelring, Manald Heal, The Stone of Jordan)

- Gambling. As far as I can tell does not upgrade to exceptional. So better to spend gold on the 2 amulets at 86, until then FHR on belt and armor, boots and fish for rares or hold onto the gold. at 73 rings can have 40 life. Or if melee in need of Attackrating rings Platinum Affix can roll from 22 101-120 AR.

- Speaking of bases no elite bases so only normal and exceptional bases in classic

- Den of Evil quest gives respec in classic ever since it was introduced back then too. But no essences for respec tokens obviously.

- expansion conversion without to have to do NM ancients happens as far as I can tell only when "boots on the ground" in kurast act 3 Hell, taking the boat from act2. important if you want to do classic at start and hold onto ancients quest until 98.

- cube recipe add socket to magical weapon lower ilvl25 ilvl30 cube recipes are great. for example so Executioner Sword with qlvl of 54 can have affixlevel 27 so affix savage 66 to 80% ED can roll. not as OP as expansion elite bases where later on with the same low recipe a Champion Sword qlvl77 can have afixlevel up to 55 which is enough to get the cruel affix 200-300% ED

- 0% MF Diablo kill in hell will drop rares.

personally I like classic ssf very much. Sure I would like to have shared stash. but pluggy in classic does not have shared for classic chars either.
Badomen_5150: Thanks, Ive played a zeal pally for like 10 years lol
RJ-bn5uw: WHERE do you pull up that HOLY GRAIL menu ?
cbreezy2449: I enjoyed the way you said “butthole”